Update for Noomen.ctg! With many corrections, additions, improvements, novelties and a few extra lines. Please make sure always to use the following options (see Book Options): 1. Tournament Book should be switched ON; 2. Minimum games should be set to 3; 3. Up to move should be set to 100

Noomen.ctg, a whole new opening book in .ctg format by Jeroen Noomen, author of the Rybka 3 opening book. The book is very solid, most work was done in the Sicilian (Najdorf, Sveshnikov), Ruy Lopez (Marshall, Zaitsev), Slav (Classical and Semi-Slav), Queen's gambit and Nimzo/Queen's-Indian.

2015-12-24

New testsuites, based on Worldchampionship matches from Botvinnik-Smyslov 1957 and Spasski-Fischer 1972 through to Kasparov-Karpov 1990. In .pgn and .abk format.

2015-07-30

Noomen Books for Arena: A collection of seven test suites including three opening suites (sicilian, king's indian, benko) and the latest gambit and short lines suites. In Arena format (.abk).

2015-06-15

Noomen Gambit Lines (ctg book): GambitLines.ctg is an openingbook that can be used in the ChessBase GUI. It is meant for engine-engine testing. The book contains gambit lines only: one side has a (small) material advantage, the other side has to prove compensation.

2015-06-07

Noomen Short Lines (ctg book): ShortLines.ctg is an openingbook that can be used in the ChessBase GUI. It is meant for engine-engine testing. The purpose of the book is to give the engines only a small number of opening moves and keep as many pieces on the board as possible. Typically, the book is only six moves deep. In some cases more opening moves are available, to make games more interesting.

2015-05-17

Noomen short lines test suite: 100 short lines, to force the programs to calculate as early as move 2 and as late as move 8. The goal is to prevent test positions with already several pieces off the board and / or test positions with most pieces already developed. Thus, programs have to solve the development problems themselves.